Abraham Cahan took the helm of the failing Yiddish Socialist paper The Jewish Daily Forward in 1902.
Over the next fifty years he turned it into a national newspaper that changed American politics and earned him the adulation of millions of Jewish immigrants and the friendship of the greatest newpapermen of his day. Hear his fascinating story.

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